hold your tongue

What would you say to that older woman who says, just hold your tongue and don’t assert your humanity in a moment when someone disagrees with you.

There were several Smothers Brothers albums in our house — “Mom Always Liked You Best,” “Hold Your Tongue, Knave,” “It Must Have Been Something I Said!” — whose grooves were worn down to nothing and whose routines were burned into memory.

"Hold your tongue," Dream growls.

Do you ever find yourself having to hold your tongue?

“You needn’t go and tell them all our little shifts, and expose our poverty in that perfectly unnecessary way. You haven’t a bit of proper pride, and never will learn when to hold your tongue and when to speak,” said Amy despairingly.